832: That Other Guy
This American Life
This American Life
4.6 • 88.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
People tethered to one particular other person, whether they want to be or not.
- Prologue: Guest host Emmanuel Dzotsi talks to Leroy Smith about how one high school basketball tryout forever changed Leroy’s relationship to a childhood friend. (7 minutes)
- Act One: A man finds himself sucked into an intense head-to-head running competition against a perfect rival – all for free burritos from Chipotle. (18 minutes)
- Act Two: Writer Simon Rich grapples with an A.I. chatbot that threatens to make him obsolete. (21 minutes)
- Act Three: For writer Marie Phillips, moving in with her partner meant finding herself deeply connected to the woman who came before her. (12 minutes)
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| 0:00.0 | A quick warning, there are curse words that are unbeeped in today's episode of the show. |
| 0:05.0 | If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, This American Life. |
| 0:10.0 | org. |
| 0:11.0 | From W-B-E-Z Chicago, it's this American life. I'm Emmanuel Jochee sitting in for Ira Glass. |
| 0:18.0 | When Leroy was a teenager, he had a really close group of friends. There were five of them and they hung out all the time. |
| 0:25.0 | It was a group of us called the Dude Crew. |
| 0:27.0 | The Dude Crew? The Dude Crew? |
| 0:29.0 | Who came up with the name The Dude Crew? |
| 0:31.0 | I don't even know, man it I remember one of our problems I think we |
| 0:35.7 | we all took a picture and was all of us in our little suits all had our collars |
| 0:40.6 | popped up and we're like the Dude crew. |
| 0:43.0 | The Dude crew was big in the sports and at their high school |
| 0:47.6 | the vastly basketball team was the thing everyone wanted to be on. |
| 0:51.2 | Back in the 10th grade, Leroy and one other guy, one of his best friends in the Dude crew, |
| 0:56.2 | decided they were going to try out, even though Leroy had just started playing basketball |
| 1:00.6 | only a couple of years earlier. The trial happened and a few days |
| 1:04.7 | later while he was in class the list of who made the team was finally posted. |
| 1:09.2 | Leroy looked frantically for his name. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, yeah I made it, yeah, yeah, I'm on the varsity, oh my God, as a 10th grader. |
| 1:18.0 | So that excitement was like, yeah, you know, goal hit. |
| 1:22.0 | And again, for me, that was like a big accomplishment to be on |
| 1:26.3 | varsity team with these men they're they look sp- they have beards |
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